There are books that you can read in their entirety and have no opinion of other than “eh”. This isn’t one of them, one way or another. This is mostly about a little girl, Lily, dealing with the sexual abuse of her father. Obviously, it affects her everywhere. Her dealings with other boys her age and the world in general suffers terribly from all of her pain. This isn’t an easy thing to read, honestly. Her naked pain (if this isn’t autobiographical she does an incredible job of depicting this atrocity) is hard to look at. Still, it’s an important work, and it’s done really well. The art reminds me a lot of Ariel Bordeaux, although I’m sure that’s just a coincidence because they were both doing comics at the same time (the bulk of these are between ’92 and ’95). In other words, check this out, if you haven’t already. She has a new book coming out soon too, which I’m going to check out just as soon as this one works its way through my system. It’s still hard to believe that there are people in this world like the father in this book…
Dreschler, Debbie – Daddy’s Girl
April 27, 2010
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Dreschler, Debbie – Nowhere #1
April 23, 2010
I’m sorry, but this might be the ugliest comic I’ve ever seen. I’ve liked the work of hers that I’ve seen quite a bit and I was ready and willing to love this, but… well, here. This isn’t the norm for my reviews, but I have to show you what I’m talking about.
It’s a bit smaller than it should be because it’s color and I don’t have infinite space here, but if you can stand to look at those colors and enjoy the book, more power to you. I think this might be a case where my scanner actually made it look better. I felt like I needed 3D glasses to read the thing… Anyway, enough complaining about that, I just didn’t like it at all, OK? That being said, I don’t think the issue itself was bad at all and I might have been able to get over the color scheme if I had a whole collected edition to look at (that’s what Summer of Love is and the color scheme is different at least), but one issue alone didn’t give me that chance. Check out Daddy’s Girl, it’s a great, powerful book. If you like these colors give this book a chance, maybe it’s just me. What’s it about? A family has just moved and is trying to fit in. That’s the basic overview, I’m sure much more happens in the rest of the series. Click on the link to buy it or check out more samples.
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